Regulating from Nowhere: Enviromental Law and the Search for Objectivity — A talk with Douglas Kysar

The Political Science Department and the School of Public Policy and Administration invites you to a joint speaker event with Douglas Kysar, Professor of Law at the Yale Law School – where he will present on his recent book entitled:

Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity

All are welcome to attend.
Reception to follow.
Please RSVP mary_au@carleton.ca

Description:

The most pressing and challenging aspects of environmental law and policy concern how we relate to future generations, foreign nations, and other forms of life.  Yet the dominant policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis — which asks policymakers to, in essence, “regulate from nowhere” — fails to adequately motivate ethical engagement with precisely those questions.  Indeed, world governments struggle to address climate change and other pressing environmental issues in large part because dominant methods of policy analysis obscure the central reasons for acting to ensure environmental sustainability.  This talk will seek to compensate for these shortcomings through a novel defense of the precautionary principle and a vision of environmental constitutionalism in which the ability of life to flourish is always regarded as a luxury we can afford.

Biography:

Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His teaching and research areas include torts, environmental law, and risk regulation. To view Professor Kysar’s Faculty page: http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/DKysar.htm and SSRN profile

Book description:

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